I am off to town today – and not with any great enthusiasm. I am only going because there is a bit of a window in the weather and (mainly) because I have 4 tickets left that run out on Tuesday. Being a Yorkshire lass I have need of value for money and wish to …
Category archives: Living
La Cloche
I am getting a La Cloche bread dome. Anybody used one? Got any tips on using it? It’s an eBay bargain (thanks for the heads up, Gill) used, at £5.50 – Bakery Bits have them… at £47.49. I had discounted the La Cloche in my head until I read a review in which somebody says …
All Good Things
I had my first experiment with Chia today. I made a pudding, using a tin of coconut milk as the base. Added flavours: cocoa, cinnamon, maple syrup so, that’s why I am calling it All Good Things Pudding Makes 2 generous or 4 small portions. Three people may be moderate pigs. Believers in Chia as …
Grapefruit
Another pithy food memory post. We opened a tin of grapefruit the other morning and ate it for breakfast. I commented that grapefruit might be the one thing that I might possibly enjoy more from a tin than I do fresh. Not that I don’t like it fresh, because I do – but tinned grapefruit …
No-bake days
No baking today. I fancied a Spanakopita for lunch but as we are trying to be good about our diet I am leaving the pastry out, so I suppose that we are having a spanakofrittata instead! I love the combo of Feta and Spinach and am now toying with notions of some kind of tasty …
Adventures with Ben
Fenella’s starter has been named Ben, obviously. The instruction sheet for Ben is very complicated. He originated in San Francisco and seems to be a tender soul, in need of doses of mineral water, greenhouse temperatures and so on. It makes me sad that I killed my rugged Orkney starter, Ben. I fed Ben again …